The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer. Buy the bestselling thriller for just €4.99, a saving of €5, when you buy The Irish Times.
On Saturday, February 22nd, in Dublin's Liberty Hall Theatre, Kathy Sheridan of The Irish Times will interview Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright to mark the publication of Actress, her first novel since 2015's acclaimed The Green Road. You buy a half-price copy of Actress for only €8.50 when booking your ticket.
The National Library of Ireland has had more than 280,000 visits this year, its highest visitor numbers of the decade, in a year when it has unveiled state-of-the-art book storage, the launch of a new digital collecting initiative and the opening of the Museum of Literature Ireland in partnership with UCD. This Saturday, John Self looks back over emerging trends in the world of books over the past decade. Reviews feature Ian D’Alton on Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life by Patricia Laurence; Declan O’Driscoll on The Eighth Life by Nino Haratschvili, translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin; Luz Mar González-Arias on The Poems of Dorothy Molloy; Muiris Houston on Man’s 4th Best Hospital by Samuel Shem; Peter Murphy on No Authority by Anne Enright: Writings from the Laureateship; John Cooney on The Catholic Church and the Northern Irish Troubles, 1969-1998 by Dr Margaret Scull; Caitriona Crowe on Five Women: The Second Republic, 1960-2016 by Emer Nolan; Sarah Gilmartin on The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Louise Heal Kawai; Rob Doyle on The Fall by Albert Camus; and Claire Hennessy on the best new YA fiction.
